Best Thing You Never Had

Album: Letters (2004)
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  • Hello, how ya doing?
    what's it like to ruin all my self esteem?
    let me blow off some steam
    for five years I've waited, so why
    am I jaded to get back at you?
    what makes it cool?

    when you act like nothing ever happened
    I feel like I should feel bad,
    but I can't like someone who thought
    they're the only one that mattered,
    I hope that you're flattered
    cause you broke this down,
    the best thing that you never had

    and it seems like a loss somehow my
    heart got lost on the way to my head
    and my brain cells are dead, and the
    craziness
    shows, now I start to go when
    the green turns to red and I should be
    dead

    when you act like nothing ever happened,
    I feel like I should feel bad,
    but I can't like someone who thought
    they're the only one that mattered while
    my heart got shattered like romantic roadkill
    my heart is all splattered your ego got
    fatter and I hope that you're flattered,
    cause you broke this down,
    you broke this down,
    the best thing that you never had

    like the toilet seat never got lifted
    and I pissed on your confidence when you
    weren't around, how can that be?
    don't turn this around, you were the one
    who drove my ass right to the ground

    when you act like nothing ever happened
    I feel like I should feel bad, and I can't like
    someone who thought they're the only
    one that mattered while my heart got
    shattered like romantic roadkill my heart
    is all splattered your ego got fatter and I
    hope that you're flattered
    cause you broke this down,
    you broke this down,
    the best thing, the best thing
    the best thing that you never had

    you never had... Writer/s: BUTCH WALKER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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